Why Andy Burnham won’t Rejoin (opens in new tab)

Perhaps it was the hand of God that plopped Andy Burnham down in Makerfield. Had he got his first choice of constituency, Gorton and Denton, his now-inevitable ascent would have carried different implications. He might have won a mandate, as Hannah Spencer did, for an attack on the government from the Left. Makerfield, however, kept him tethered to the center.